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iii
Risks Related to Our Business
• our ability to sustain and grow revenues and cash flow from operations by offering video, Internet, voice, advertising and
other services to residential and commercial customers, to adequately meet the customer experience demands in our
markets and to maintain and grow our customer base, particularly in the face of increasingly aggressive competition, the
need for innovation and the related capital expenditures;
• the impact of competition from other market participants, including but not limited to incumbent telephone companies,
direct broadcast satellite operators, wireless broadband and telephone providers, digital subscriber line (“DSL”) providers,
video provided over the Internet and providers of advertising over the Internet;
• general business conditions, economic uncertainty or downturn, unemployment levels and the level of activity in the
housing sector;
• our ability to obtain programming at reasonable prices or to raise prices to offset, in whole or in part, the effects of higher
programming costs (including retransmission consents);
• the development and deployment of new products and technologies including our cloud-based user interface, Spectrum
Guide®, and downloadable security for set-top boxes;
• the effects of governmental regulation on our business or potential business combination transactions;
• any events that disrupt our networks, information systems or properties and impair our operating activities and negatively
impact our reputation;
• the availability and access, in general, of funds to meet our debt obligations prior to or when they become due and to fund
our operations and necessary capital expenditures, either through (i) cash on hand, (ii) free cash flow, or (iii) access to
the capital or credit markets; and
• our ability to comply with all covenants in our indentures and credit facilities, any violation of which, if not cured in a
timely manner, could trigger a default of our other obligations under cross-default provisions.
All forward-looking statements attributable to us or any person acting on our behalf are expressly qualified in their entirety by
this cautionary statement. We are under no duty or obligation to update any of the forward-looking statements after the date of
this annual report.